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white_hart) wrote2021-02-20 07:05 pm
white_hart) wrote2021-02-20 07:05 pm
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Saturday discussion post: small pleasures (51/365)
I really like pain au raisin, but T doesn't like raisins, and supermarket pain au raisin only come in packs of two and I don't necessarily want two at once, so although we often have pastries for breakfasts at weekends I hadn't had a pain au raisin since before lockdown started*. I mentioned this in a chat with my swimming friends and it turned out that L had exactly the same issue, so she brought pain au raisin for a post-swim snack today.
It may have been only a supermarket pastry, eaten out of the packet while sitting on the muddy bank of a lake in a public park** but it was so lovely to have something I haven't been able to have for nearly a year.
What small things have been making your life a bit better lately?
*I can't remember exactly when I had my last one. I do remember trying to buy one in Gail's on the Friday morning after my last swim in the pool, when I'd picked up some shopping and was heading to the office to collect my chair before going home to work, but they didn't have any and I had to have a cinnamon bun which was nice, but not the same.
**And it was probably a bit closer to an illegal picnic than my normal Tunnocks caramel wafer
It may have been only a supermarket pastry, eaten out of the packet while sitting on the muddy bank of a lake in a public park** but it was so lovely to have something I haven't been able to have for nearly a year.
What small things have been making your life a bit better lately?
*I can't remember exactly when I had my last one. I do remember trying to buy one in Gail's on the Friday morning after my last swim in the pool, when I'd picked up some shopping and was heading to the office to collect my chair before going home to work, but they didn't have any and I had to have a cinnamon bun which was nice, but not the same.
**And it was probably a bit closer to an illegal picnic than my normal Tunnocks caramel wafer
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My recent happy thing is a new laundry rack. I had never really thought of them as things you could 'upgrade', but after c. 20 years my old one was shedding large chunks of paint. It also turned out the painted coating was necessary to make two of the side-bars large enough to support its arms, so they kept collapsing. I now have a new one which is both lighter and sturdier, and does not shed paint or collapse, all of which is very pleasing.
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